About DragonBall
     DragonBall is a Japanese series of anime, whose original author was Akira Toriyama. Mr. Toriyama is also known for being the author of another famous series: Dr.Slump. DragonBall first appeared as a comic called "manga" in Japan. The DragonBall Manga was published weekly in Shounen Jump magazine. Keep in mind that this magzine has a weekly circulation of 6-7 million(Other American magazines like Time or People have 4,3 and 3,4 million each). It had enormous success and inmediately it was adapted to a TV series.
       DragonBall is the first of three series which (untill now) make up the anime seires with the greatest number of fans in the world. And all of it because of a little boy......
      This is the story about a little boy called Son Goku. The story is based on a chinese legend , the king ape legend. In the beggining, Son Goku lives happily in the mountains, far from the world since his grandfather's death. He is a very naive boy who has a physical peculiarity:he has a tail. One day, all his life changes because of a girl. A girl called Bulma arrives, she is in search for the DragonBalls and goku has a dragonball. After discussing a little, Goku decides to go with Bulma in search of the other dragonballs. There are seven dragonballs and each one has a certain number of stars on it. When these dragonballs are all together, they have the power to call the mighty dragon, the Dragon Shenron, who can bring into reality any wish of the caller.
     As the episodes go on, some new, unearthly techniques and attacks appear. These attacks are based on different kins of energy balls which explode like bombs, Son Goku's most famous attack is the Kamehameha. Goku learned this attack from his master, the great Mutenroshi, best known under the name of Kame Sennin.
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